60" x 30" Oil painting on canvas, 2011. This triptych painting was a gift for my mother-in-law, she showed me paintings that she liked to give me inspiration. Knowing the wall it would hang on would be a golden yellow, I wanted to keep the color scheme muted with hints of color. I started with the background, giving it light blues and yellows with a rough brown border for contrast against the wall. I used heavy brush strokes to give it depth and texture. Adding in the tree silhouette, was like giving life to the painting and watching it grow. I added in the final touch of the three birds to give it personality.
66" x 32" Oil painting on sheetrock and wallpaper, 2009. This was my first oil painting and I it had to fill up my large dining room wall, so why not make it as big as me. I wanted the background to be the main focus instead of the subject(s). I experimented painting on a different mediums using layered scraps of raised wallpaper around the edges to create a subtle border and to give it more depth and texture.
40" x 30" Oil painting on canvas and wallpaper, 2009. What better way to payback my art college education, than to paint my parents a present. Although, I did not take a painting class in college my other classes helped me with compostion, color and scale. With my parents redesiging their kitchen, I thought it would be a great time to have a new painting hanging on the wall. I liked how the wallpaper bordering effect worked on my previous painting and wanted to try something similiar. The bottom half of their wall is red, so I wanted to tie in the bold red color making it the focus.
63" x 37" Acrylic painting on fabric with stained pine frame, 2008. Growing up in the country and moving to the city made me realize how much I value trees, especially old large trees. This abstract painting was inspired by a photograph of the Angel Oak Tree in Charleston, S.C. which is estimated at over 1,400 years old. This painting has been hung on many different colored walls and still shines due to it’s bold color scheme and interesting tree silhouette.
